José Serra

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Brazilian history

...run for a third consecutive term, Lula endorsed his former chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, as the Workers’ Party candidate in the 2010 presidential election. Her challengers in the October poll were
José Serra, Lula’s Social Democratic rival in the 2002 election, and Marina Silva of the Green Party. Rousseff won nearly half of the vote, but, because she fell short of a majority, she and...

Lula da Silva

...grassroots participation in the political process, he also courted business leaders and promised to work with the International Monetary Fund to meet fiscal targets. Lula decisively defeated
José Serra, the government-backed candidate, by winning 61.5 percent of the vote.

São Paulo

...and implemented programs aimed at improving lower-income communities while discontinuing many of Pitta’s lavish public works and construction projects. In 2004 her bid for reelection was thwarted by
José Serra, one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), former health minister, and runner-up in the 2002 presidential elections. During his 15 months in city hall,...